Diva Canon #3: CELINE DION
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Love her or hate her (and I'm assuming most of you are going to go for the latter), our Celine has more than earned her place in pop history. Now you have seven ticks to find your favourite UK Top 40 hits from the wibbly-warbly Canadian throat-merchant!
[Poll #790597]
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THOSE TICKS JUSTIFIED
Date: 2006-08-11 01:05 pm (UTC)'Misled' = INSANE DISCO STOMPER
'Think Twice' = another classic powerballad!
'Falling Into You' = genuinely lovely and trip-hoppy - actually understated for once! like a precursor to that one good Dido song
'All By Myself' = pop culture colossus due to B Jones, also has that one moment where all the instrumentation drops out and she hits THAT NOTE and it feels like the world has screeched to a halt on its axis and been sent spinning the other way
'It's All Coming Back To Me Now' = eight-minute Steinman-penned epic which out-Meatloafs Meatloaf
'My Heart Will Go On' = erm I don't HATE it
Re: THOSE TICKS JUSTIFIED
Date: 2006-08-11 01:19 pm (UTC)is it ok that i only ticked three?
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Date: 2006-08-11 01:21 pm (UTC)Re: THOSE TICKS JUSTIFIED
Date: 2006-08-11 01:21 pm (UTC)Re: THOSE TICKS JUSTIFIED
Date: 2006-08-11 01:25 pm (UTC)Re: THOSE TICKS JUSTIFIED
Date: 2006-08-11 01:29 pm (UTC)I think she did a disco-bosh cover of 'I Drove All Night' at some point too :o
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Date: 2006-08-11 05:41 pm (UTC)"I Drove All Night" is great!
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Date: 2006-08-11 01:07 pm (UTC)Most definitely. I contemplated ticking 'Pour Que Tu M'Aimes Encore' to give it its full title, because it was just about bearable as Celine songs go. But then again... nil points pour Mademoiselle Dion.
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Date: 2006-08-14 08:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-11 01:09 pm (UTC)Justine Henin-Hardenne's favourite singer is Celine! Actually a lot of tennis players seem to like her.
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Date: 2006-08-11 01:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-11 06:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-11 06:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-14 10:45 am (UTC)THE VERY DEFN. OF POPTIMISM
Date: 2006-08-11 01:38 pm (UTC)*ie almost everyone except ppl who don't like music - you know who I mean
Re: THE VERY DEFN. OF POPTIMISM
Date: 2006-08-11 01:50 pm (UTC)or at least think about WHY they are hated, who they are hated by, and whether your kneejerk hatred of them is inherited from critics or actually justified (and in C's case it is justified for many of her songs, but she should certainly not be a totemic hate figure)
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Date: 2006-08-11 01:59 pm (UTC)Re: THE VERY DEFN. OF POPTIMISM
Date: 2006-08-14 10:47 am (UTC)Wardrobe Malfunction!
Date: 2006-08-11 01:44 pm (UTC)This poll is blatantly an excuse for me to waste more time on the internet looking up stuff about Celine Dion.
Ha!
Date: 2006-08-11 01:46 pm (UTC)'"Who Let the Dogs Out" is better than all the songs Ms Dion has recorded, put together,' he writes.
Re: Ha!
Date: 2006-08-11 03:45 pm (UTC)Re: Ha!
Date: 2006-08-14 10:50 am (UTC)baby baby baby
Date: 2006-08-11 02:04 pm (UTC)- The video to It's All Comin' Back To Me, falling tree kills motorcyclist, even Meatloaf would've been proud
- The guitar solo in Think Twice
- Falling Into You (Falling Into You)
I don't remember The Power Of Love, it's neither the Frankie Goes To Hollywood nor the Jennifer Rush song is it ? Is it HUEY LEWIS ?
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Date: 2006-08-11 02:27 pm (UTC)Fiery Dance-Floor Demon
Date: 2006-08-11 05:58 pm (UTC)I could have gotten up to ten ticks, but nonetheless THIS IS A REALLY LOUSY LIST AND IN NO WAY REPRESENTATIVE OF WHAT SHE'S LIKE AT HER BEST. I blame the record companies. I blame the fans. I blame the zeitgeist. I blame the iceberg. (Good song, sung well until she decides to outcrash the ship.)
Search: "Reveal," "When the Wrong One Loves You Right," "Unison," "Drove All Night" (I'll take any of those over anything I've heard by the Sugababes or Girls Aloud), "I Don't Know" (her best ballad, smoldering and heartbroken, with a disconcerting counterrhythm underneath), anything produced by Ric Wake (who, prior to Celine, unleashed Taylor Dayne on the world).
Destroy: Half of this list.
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Date: 2006-08-11 10:07 pm (UTC)Re: Fiery Dance-Floor Demon
Date: 2006-08-12 06:49 am (UTC)Re: Fiery Dance-Floor Demon
Date: 2006-08-14 08:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-11 06:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-11 07:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-14 10:51 am (UTC)